I use Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, I did the following: sudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf and added
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Install-Suggests "false";
But it did not work. When I try to install a package, it still wants to install the suggested and recommended packages. How can I solve this?
If you do not want to install recomended packages you can run apt-get with the --no-install-recommends flag or aptitude with the --without-recommends/-R flag.
If you want these flags to always be enabled (I do NOT recommend this) put the following lines in your /etc/apt/apt.conf file:
APT::Install-Recommends "false";
APT::Install-Suggests "false";
Remember that these packages are recommended for a reason and it is probably not a good idea to ignore it at all times. You would be better off using the flags in the cases where you know that the recommended packages are wrong.
